Optical forces on atoms / Farhan Saif and Shinichi Watanabe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saif, Farhan, author.

Watanabe, Shinichi, author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP ebooks. 2023 collection.

IOP ebooks. [2023 collection]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atoms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2023]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Biography/History:

Dr. Farhan Saif served as the chairman, Department of Electronics, Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU, Islamabad) and as the Founding Head of Department of Physics, National University of Science and Technology. He obtained teaching and research experience at the University of Ulm, University of Arizona, University of Sao Paulo (UNESP), and University of Electro Communication, Tokyo. D.r Saif received a doctorate degree from University of Ulm, Germany in 1998. He has been an Associate Member of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. He served as a professor of Department of Physics QAU from 2016 till 2018, and is presently serving as a Tenured Professor of Electronics. Dr. Saif's research areas include ultracold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates in optical fields, quantum computation and quantum information, nano-optomechanics, nano-devices, quantum optics and dynamical systems. Dr. Saif is the principal investigator of Quantum Electronics Labs, QAU, where he has supervised twelve PhD and 55 MPhil theses. In recognition of his many pioneering contributions as a researcher and educator he has received numerous national and international awards. Dr. Saif has collaborated with theorists and experimentalists alike in research institutions including University College London, Hunan Normal University, Turin Polytechnic university, College of William and Mary, Virginia, Abdelmalek Essaadi University Morocco, Tokyo University and the University of Electro-Communications. Dr. Shinichi Watanabe worked as a Tenured Professor at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Electro-Communications (UEC Tokyo), Tokyo, Japan. Previously, he worked as a researcher of the CNRS at the Observatory of Paris at Meudon, France from 1981 till 1987. Dr. Watanabe obtained his PhD degree in 1982 at the University of Chicago, USA. Earlier, he completed his BSc in 1977 at Brown University, USA. He served as the Chairman, Department of Applied Physics and Chemistry at UEC Tokyo, and currently he is serving as Director of the International Education Center at the same university. Dr. Watanabe's research interests primarily concern the dynamics of atoms and their interaction with light. He worked on the double ionization threshold law of the two-electron atom/ion, high-resolution continuum spectra of diamagnetic hydrogen-like atoms, hyperspherical adiabatic theory, Bose-Einstein condensation, ultra-cold molecular formation, and the dynamics of ultra-cold atoms in optical lattices. He ran a group working on atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) Physics, at the Department of Engineering Science at UEC Tokyo, and has supervised five PhD and 33 MSc theses. Dr. Watanabe has collaborated worldwide with researchers at Kansas State University, USA; the Observatory of Paris at Meudon, France; the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA; JILA at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA; and Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan, among others.

Summary:

Coherent control of matter waves using mechanical action of an electromagnetic field displays quantum duality at work. Deflecting, focusing and trapping the matter wave or de Broglie wave using optical fields lead us to develop tools to manipulate the matter waves. The emerging field provides a playground to study the newer effects of quantum coherence and quantum interference. The expansion of this area in the last three decades has enabled us to store atoms and cool them to temperatures as low as micro kelvin scale and beyond, leading to experimental realization of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) and of Fermi degeneracy in ultra-cold atoms. With a focus on graduate students and young researchers, this book discusses the topics that lay the foundation stones of interaction of ultra-cold atoms with optical potentials.

Contents:

1. Introduction and overview

1.1. Historical background

1.2. Structure of the book

2. Characterization of optical fields

2.1. Electromagnetic field modes in vacuum

2.2. Quantization of electromagnetic field modes

2.3. Quantized electromagnetic fields

2.4. Quantum distribution functions

3. Atom-field interaction

3.1. Atom-field interaction

3.2. Optical lattices

3.3. Interaction of an atom with an optical lattice

4. Scattering of atoms by light waves

4.1. Kapitza-Dirac scattering

4.2. Bragg scattering

4.3. Talbot effect

4.4. Cooling of atoms

5. Band formation in optical lattices

5.1. Quantized dynamics

5.2. Bloch theorem

5.3. Energy bands

5.4. Bloch states for optical lattices

5.5. Wannier states

5.6. Formation of bands

5.6..1 Kronig-Penney model

5.7. Band formation for optical lattices : tight-binding picture

6. Interacting atoms in optical lattices

6.1. An atom in an optical lattice

6.2. Constant external forcing

6.3. Wannier-Stark states and the Wannier-Stark ladder

6.4. Bloch oscillations

6.5. Beyond the tight-binding approximation : the Landau-Zener transition

6.6. Many-body effects of ultra-cold atoms in an optical lattice

6.7. Bose-Hubbard model

6.8. Fermi-Hubbard model

7. Forces on atoms in exponentially varying fields

7.1. Mirrors, cavities, and interferometers

7.2. Bouncing atom on an atomic trampoline

7.3. Space-time evolution : quantum carpets

7.4. Quantum revivals

7.5. Nano optical-fiber cavities

8. Atoms in multi-dimensional systems

8.1. The state of a system

8.2. Integrable systems

8.3. Nearly integrable systems

8.4. Kicked-rotator model

8.5. Poincaré surface of sections

8.6. Arnold diffusion

8.7. Lyapunov exponent

8.8. Secular theory for non-linear resonances

8.9. Quantum scars

9. Time-periodic force on atoms

9.1. Floquet analysis

9.2. Floquet-Bloch solution

9.3. Einstein-Brillouin-Keller quantization

9.4. Quantization near non-linear resonances

10. Atoms in modulated optical lattices

I

10.1. Phase-modulated optical lattice

10.2. Time evolution

10.3. Floquet-Bloch solution

10.4. Dispersion relation

10.5. Bloch acceleration and group velocity

10.6. Effective mass

10.7. Dynamical localization

10.8. Dynamical de-localization

10.9. Ratchet effect : Brownian motors

11. Atoms in modulated optical lattices

II

11.1. Linear force on optical lattices

11.2. Modulated optical lattice

11.3. Mechanical action of light on atoms

11.4. Chaos-assisted tunneling

11.5. Inter-band transitions

12. Atoms in modulated evanescent wave fields

12.1. Wave packet dynamics

12.2. Quantum recurrences

12.3. Quantum recurrences as a probe to study quantum chaos

12.4. Classical period and quantum revival time : interdependence

12.5. Fermi acceleration modes

12.6. Non-dispersive accelerated matter waves

13. Nano-opto-mechanics

13.1. Fabry-Pérot cavity with moving end-mirror

13.2. Time evolution in opto-mechanics

13.3. Bistability in opto-mechanics

13.4. Linearized equations of motion

13.5. Opto-mechanical crystals

14. Hybrid opto-mechanics

14.1. Ultra-cold atoms in an opto-mechanical cavity

14.2. Quantum suppression of classical diffusion

14.3. Input-output formalism

14.4. Induced transparency and four-wave mixing

14.5. Super-luminality and sub-luminality

Appendix A. Unitary operators

Appendix B. Representations and transformations

Appendix C. General solution of dispersion relation.

Notes:

"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 4, 2024).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780750323086

0750323086

9780750323079

0750323078

OCLC:

1416301467